Electric curler for permanently giving a marcel waving to the hair



ELECTRIC CURLER FOR PERMANENTLY GIVING A MARcEL WAVING TO THE HAIR M. R. M. can.

Filed March 25, 1940 2 Sheets-Shet. 1

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ELECTRIC CURLER FOR PERMANENTLY GIVING A MARCELWAVING TO THE HAIR Filed March 25,-1940 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented July 8, 1941 res FOR PERMANENTLY GIVING A MARCEL WAVING TO THE HAIR Maria Rosa Mendez Gil, Mexico City, Mexico Application March 25, 1940, Serial No. 325,918 In Mexico March 30, 1939 ELECTRIC CURLER 1 Claim.

This invention relates, broadly speaking, to electric curlers or arrangements to curl or wave the hair, and more particularly refers to an electric curler specially built and designed to give the hair the waving known throughout the world under the name of marcel, in a permanent way; contrary to the similar arrangements used and known so far which only give a marcel short lasting waving.

The devices known and used at present to permanently waving the hair make indeed the spiral curling known as croquignole, but, as far as I know, such devices as this that make a permanent marcel waving of the hair are not known.

My invention, therefore, has for its main object to supply an electric curler to make a permanent marcel waving.

The features of this curler are clearly shown in the following description, as well as in the attached drawings to illustrate same, the same reference figures indicating the same parts of the apparatus in the seventeen figures shown.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a conventional elevation, in perspective, of the present electric curler complete, horizontally seen and showing the way to insert the lock of hair in same.

Fig. 2 is another perspective conventional view of the same curler, in which the upper part of this is better appreciated.

Fig. 3 is a perspective View of same, taken in its own plane.

Figs, 4, 5 and 6 are the three circular plates which form the base of the present electric curler.

Figs. 7 and 8 constitute the elements placed between the two plates forming the body of the curler and which are provided of means to hold the hair and maintain it perfectly tight.

Figs. 9 and 10 are the two plates provided with bolts, which placed edge to edge, constitute the body of the curler, being attached to the base of same by their back ends.

Figs. 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 are other embodyments or variations of the present curler referring to its body.

Fig. 16 shows only the usual heating element in the shape of a clip, and

Fig, 17 is the supplementary heating element, in the shape of a pipe, which entirely houses the curler-object of this invention for waving the hair with the marcel wave.

Such as shown in said figures and more partlcularly in Figs. 4 to 10 inclusive, the present arrangement is substantially constituted by a base formed by three superposed circular base plates that are illustrated in Figs. 4, 5 and 6. The first of said plates is a semicircular element 3 with a cut oil segment 2 and movably attached to same by a screw, rivet or the like, so that both elements are pivoted. The intermediate plate Fig. 5, is in the same way formed by the two elements 4 and 5 movably attached or pivoted to each other, having further in its center a sliding piece 6 which is constantly upwardly pressed through a spring 7 located under the lower portion of same and whose ends rest on the edge of the opening in which said spring is located. The third of said plates Fig. 6 upon which the body itself of the curler is attached, is formed, as the two former, by the two pivoted elements 8 and 9 and is besides provided of a small latch In on plate 8, opposite to the pivot and engages with a rivet on element 9, it has besides claws ll arranged in three equidistant points of its periphery.

These three circular plates or discs are held together by means of rivets or screws l2 as if they were a single unit, but in such a way that its pivoted elements perfectly coincide and have the same rotatory axis; they will also be provided with an opening or boring, slightly oval, through which the lock of hair I passes and is held in the body of the curler. The latch It] holds the elements 2, 4 and 8 together against elements 3, 5 and 9 to which they are pivoted, while it keeps it open to introduce the lock of hair I in the way shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings. 1

The body of the curler is substantially constituted by two hair-carrying plates Figs. 9 and 10 whose forward end is bent at right angle forming holding flanges l9 that attach to element 9 of the circular plate in the way seen in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings. The flange IQ of one of said plates has a semicircular entering cut in order not to interfere with the opening through which the lock of hair I passes, such cut existing in the three plates that form the base of the curler. Each one of said plates Figs. 9 and 10 is provided with a plurality of bolts 20 tightly attached to them and arranged in juxtaposition in respect to the surface of same; said bolts preferably have a tapered or rounded end, as illustrated in the drawings.

To form the body of the curler said plates Figs. 9 and 10 provided with bolts 20 are arranged against each other in such a Way that they are in entirely opposed directions trying to place them in alternate positions, to which purpose, for

instance, one of the plates will have four equidistant bolts and the other only three bolts.

Between the two plates Figs. 9 and 10 is located the bar Fig. 8 provided with two entering angular cuts I4 and with an oblong horizontal opening, abutting said bar to the screw or screwed bolt [1 provided with the thumb nut l8. Upon this the bar Fig. 7 is located, provided with two angular projections l3 which perfectly fit into the cuts M of the prior Fig. 8 being besides provided with an Oblong vertical opening l5. These two bars are housed, as aforesaid, at the back of plates Figs, 9 and 10 being held between them, the four plates being fastened by rivets that pass through the openings l5 and I6 of bars Figs. 7 and 8; the screw l1 passes through the hollow stems at the ends of plates Figs. 9 and 10. On pressing the thumb nut H on the edge of the pair of hollow stems in the foreward end of plates 9 and 10, the bar Fig. 8 tends to go down which is allowed by its elongated horizontal opening, and the upper bar Fig. 7 tends to go up, its teeth 13 sliding in cuts 14, which is allowed by the vertical opening provided thereto; in this way, from one of the longitudinal edges of the body of the curler formed by plates Figs. 9 and the bar Fig. 7 projects in order to further tighten the hair I, placed between the opposed bolts of both plates.

As it must have been understood, the lock of hair I passes through the base of the curler by its boring, opening the movable portions of each one of the three discs that constitute said base; once this done, said movable portion is closed by means of the latch l0 and the hair is interlocked among the bolts 20, pressing the thumb nut I3 in the screw H; the bar Fig. 7 is projected out of the longitudinal edge of the body of the curler in the way shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, thereby obtaining that the hair is tightly pressed against said body of the curler; this done, the pressing clip Fig. 16 is placed or this curler is introduced within the heating tube illustrated in Fig. 1'7, towhose ends are held the cuts 26 of same that engage the claws l l of plate in Fig. 6 of the base of the curler.

Figs. 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 are as many variations that the body of the electric curler may have according to this invention in combination with the described base. For instance, in Fig. 11 a body is illustrated formed by lozenges 2|, between whose prongs the lock of hair is grasped,

said lozenges being attached to a rod 22; Fig. 12 is an angular bent plate 23 provided with bolts 26 alternately disposed in rows, although of the same surface. Fig. 13 illustrates a deviation of the flat plate 24 provided also with a plurality of bolts 20 disposed in a same surface and in two alternate rows, it being preferable in this deviation to use a perforated plate 25, whose perforations coincide with the arrangement of bolts 20 in order that it is disposed in the way illustrated in Fig. 14, to conveniently press the lock of hair I; Fig. 15 is another deviation, in which the body of the curler is substituted by an undulating rod, between whose undulations the hair is placed.

Having thus described the invention, what I consider as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A hair curler comprising a base made up of a plurality of base plates, together formed with an opening through which a strand of hair may be passed, said base plate being relatively movable along lines passing through the opening for convenience in introducing a strand of hair and for substantially clamping it with relation to the base, hair-carrying plates secured in fixed relation to the-base and extending normally therefrom in spaced parallel relation, pins projecting from the relatively outer surface of each haircarrying plate and transverse the length thereof, and means whereby the hair-carrying plates may be spread apart throughout one edge without correspondingly affecting the opposite edges, said means comprising a bar mounted for movement longitudinally of the hair-carrying plates but held against transverse movement relative thereto, a second bar mounted for movement transversely of the hair-carrying plates, but held against longitudinal movement with respect thereto, the respective bars being disposed between the edges of the hair-carrying plates and formed on their meeting edges with complementary angular projections and notches whereby in the longitudinal movement of the first mentioned bar the second bar will be forced to move transversely of the hair-carrying plates and between the edges thereof adjacent such second bar only to thereby force the pins carried by the hair-carrying plates in a direction to tighten any hair coil which may be arranged thereon, and means connected to the first said bar for manually moving said bar longitudinally of the haircarrying plates.

MARIA ROSA MENDEZ GIL. 

